one of the things that I was teaching about was the rain shadow effect," de la Sancha said. It is a product of the way that water vapor travels over mountain ranges. It rises as the air picks it ...

The longest continental mountain range in the world creates what’s known as a rain shadow, or an area sheltered by the winds necessary to create clouds—and rain. Read on to learn the ...

The rain shadow effect is a product of the way that water vapor travels over mountain ranges. The air over the ocean picks up water vapor, and as the ocean naturally warms, this water vapor rises.

"Palm Springs itself has been a little rain-shadowed," meteorologist Phil Gonsalves ... for the area near downtown Los Angeles, but mountain areas to the direct north may get up to 1 inch of ...

(Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) Some valley locations could see slightly over an inch, while mountain regions ... County creating a “rain shadow,” Roser said.

Widespread rain will develop across the lowlands on Sunday, save for Central Sound, which will be rain shadowed much of ... the typical lowland rain and mountain snow midweek.